<h1>Executive</h1>

<p>The Executive is made up of ten Councillors: the Leader and two Deputy Leaders of the Council and seven Executive Members with responsibility for Adult Services, Arts and Leisure, Children’s Services, Employment and Skills, Environment, Finance and Human Resources, and Neighbourhood Services. The Chair is the Leader of the Council.</p>

<p>A Consultative Panel of fifteen Councillors has a standing invitation to attend public meetings of the Executive.  The members of the Panel may speak at these meetings but cannot vote on the decision taken at the meetings.</p>

<p>The Executive has full authority for implementing the Council’s Budgetary and Policy Framework, and this means that most of its decisions do not need approval by Council, although they may still be subject to detailed review through the Council’s overview and scrutiny procedures. </p>
 
<p>It is the Council’s policy to consult people as fully as possible before making decisions that affect them. Members of the public do not have a right to speak at meetings but may do so if invited by the Chair.</p>
 
<p>The Council is concerned to ensure that its meetings are as open as possible and confidential business is kept to the strict minimum. When confidential items are involved these are considered at the end of the meeting at which point members of the public and the press are asked to leave. </p>

<h2>Previous meetings</h2>
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